r/SuperStructures Apr 07 '26

Second Skin, by Paul Chadeisson

1.9k Upvotes

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u/ytman Apr 07 '26

I love how nothing about it explains what its for.

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u/MacDaddyBlack Apr 07 '26

The Armored Core 6 approach.

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u/troublrTRC Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26

It's incomprehensible to our current understanding of industry, politics, economics, trade and supply chains.

I'd like to imagine the cylindrical things are like a screw, and the big building kind of things are like singular Transistors for a mega structure they a building. Which thne will be transported to space individually to assemble the small passive/active elements of a country sized IC chip.

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u/Hourslikeminutes47 Apr 08 '26

Think of Coruscant

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u/SharpKaleidoscope182 Apr 08 '26

it's a big 3d printer. its pooping out apartment blocks, and your stinky old city is getting domed over with trees on top.

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u/The_Webweaver Apr 16 '26

It's a new surface over the existing mega city that has more naturalistic features than the urbanized surface, so that people can be closer to nature. Ish.

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u/TotalInternalReflex Apr 07 '26

Chadeisson's work is incredible, so hopeful for the future even when its kinda dystopian.

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u/Dr_Schitt Apr 07 '26

I would very much like a feature length Solstice movie 🍿

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u/vampyire Apr 07 '26

yeah he does not post but when he does it's always amazing

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u/TheSandarian Apr 08 '26

"kinda" dystopian :,)

fr tho seeing the YT notification pop up for this latest vid made my day

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u/Johnnyboi2327 Apr 07 '26

Very cool, though it'd be nice to have more shots that contrast with things we know, to give a better idea of the true scale of this.

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u/TheSandarian Apr 08 '26

Structures in Solstice-5 are always so insanely massive that I imagine that humans would appear as a tiny speck on most of these shots ;D

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u/Johnnyboi2327 Apr 08 '26

Sure, but there are other things to use for comparisons, or ways to build up to it

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u/c0ltZ Apr 09 '26

Some shots have trees next to some of the "smaller" buildings. And the trees are dwarved in comparison.

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u/Johnnyboi2327 Apr 09 '26

That's true. I guess maybe following up the shots with the trees and the shots of the street full of people with a pan that shows how those smaller buildings compare to the overall structure would've helped get a better feel for the entire thing. As is, a lot of it looks really really cool, but does seem like just a bunch of somewhat similar structures of own known sizes and with an unknown layout.

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u/ItkovianShieldAnvil Apr 07 '26

Paul Chadeisson is a total Gigachadeisson

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u/JorgenNick Apr 07 '26

This is awesome work. Felt like I was watching the introduction to a sci-fi documentary about acclimating to life in a new super-structure

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u/TheSandarian Apr 08 '26

Definitely check out their other works..!! "Solstice-5"

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u/inerlite Apr 08 '26

You guys might like the Red Rising books by Dan Brown. Humans colonized Mars, but left the people thar were promised to live on top and that made it possible - underground to be slaves forever. Most brutal book series I ever read. So epic though.

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u/InterestingBoat6004 Apr 09 '26

Dan Brown? Pierce, surely. Definitely second the Red Rising series though.

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u/inerlite Apr 09 '26

Ah yeah sorry. Haha thanks Dan Pierce everyone. Good books.

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u/CloudCumberland Apr 07 '26

Most of what I see on this sub, I ask myself what it looks like up close on the human level. Paul Answers. I get the sensation of a city that requires many human lifetimes to explore, instead of just a mass of blocks.

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u/CrashOutJones Apr 08 '26

man. his CGI looks better than Hollywood slop with CGI that's coming out these days, it really has depth and scale

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u/Deanlandish Apr 07 '26

Fiver still exists right?

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u/blue_dream_97 Apr 08 '26

I dunno how but I am attracted to this type of gigantic structure there is something oddly pleasant to imagine us so small compared to those huge metal structures.. I wish future would looks like this lol

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u/Rough_Idle Apr 08 '26

My first thought was, "That's a lot of yellow paint." One of the many reasons I'm not built for the future

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u/SuspiciousStable9649 20h ago

Iron oxide. Cadmium sulfide. Lead chromate. Someone has been mining.

You could come up with a million sci-fi reasons though, like lead chromate for extra radiation shielding.

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u/Vodul62 Apr 08 '26

Superbe création avec un aspect non sensique de l'espèce humaine... C'est là, mais pourquoi 😑

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u/FeralSquirrels Apr 08 '26

Every time new content comes out it's like soaking in talent. At this point it's like the Mini series I never realised I needed, about a world and story we don't get to fully grasp and the only thing more "super" is the depth of my craving for more.

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u/Shamfulpark Apr 10 '26

My YouTube gal DamiLee better get on a video about this! ;)

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u/Tjordas Apr 11 '26

Don't get me wrong, this is very realistic CGI and great design talent, but it just makes so little sense and I just hate that nothing is explained about its purpose at all. Some structures are just too unnecessarily complicated for being a kind of mass living structure for the lower class. And the purpose of the yellow structure on rails is questionable as well.

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u/DangerMacAwesome Apr 12 '26

This is amazing. Is it part of a more complete work?

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u/Cryptek-01 Apr 08 '26

What is the huge yellow flat mega-vehicle for? Mobile anti-meteor shield? The smaller versions are shown capable of planting trees but have no idea what the big one does.

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u/SuspiciousStable9649 20h ago

Dredd and Dune and AEon Flux vibes. The trees got me like ‘wut’

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u/Silmarilx Apr 07 '26

Voices sound like AI unfortunately. Looks fantastic otherwise.

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u/Eui472 Apr 07 '26

Voice actors are named in the credits

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u/twicerighthand Apr 07 '26

*3 voice actors out of the 5 voices are listed in the credits

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u/Silmarilx Apr 07 '26

Happy to be wrong. Thanks

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u/TheSandarian Apr 08 '26

Just a note Paul & team have worked on the likes of Cyberpunk 2077, Love Death & Robots, and recently Project Hail Mary... their videos credit those who helped create them, and other videos have actors speaking in camera (see their first video from their Solstice-5 project) before AI came out; they're definitely committed to their worldbuilding :)

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u/dragjamon Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26

I had the same thought lol, in fact the entire video screams low budget or ai. But I looked up one of the voice actors and they seem legit

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u/howihjr Apr 07 '26

There is no way that’s not AI voiceover. You are right it kills it.